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Tokyo is cool - very stylish and quirky, lots going on, clean, packed with people, and huge. Those are my impressions after being here for four full days. My first impression when I was riding in on the Narita Express from the airport was that Tokyo is brown: brown fields, brown houses and just general brownness. My second impression was one of …

The main thing on today's agenda was a visit to the museum operated by Studio Ghibli, the makers of Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Ponyo, and other wonderful animated films by Miyazaki. You have to get tickets in advance, and I had bought ours at JTB in DC when I got our JR passes. It's about a 15 minute walk to the museum from the train stati...

Sounds like the premise for a much less interesting version of 'Inception', huh? But that's basically what these last three days have been.

Shoko and Tak, who are here in Japan for Tak's uncle's wedding and the some family visits happen to be in Tokyo the same time I'm heading out for South Korea. So we decided to meet up and Shoko grac...

I really loved the idea of going to Japan. I devoured all of Haruki Murakami's books and really wanted to step into that world for a while. I loved booking my flights to Japan. And now here I was at Sydney airport waiting to board my overnight flight to Tokyo. It looked the part already with a pig-tailed and chattering gaggle of Japanese schoolg...

Tokyo - a city of contrasts. Towering skyscrapers sit alongside thousand-year-old temples; the hustle and bustle of the streets dissolves into the serenity of leafy gardens; traditional cherry blossom fused with state of the art architecture. It's this mix of old and new that makes Tokyo such an appealing city and, for us, one that is so differe...